Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. I refer to the minister's previous answer about Emmanuel Saki, a noncitizen convicted of serious domestic violence offences and unprovoked threats to kill with a knife. Saki's visa was reinstated by the AAT as a direct result of the watering down of the law by the Albanese government and the issuance of direction 99. Why did the minister not step in, intervene and cancel the visa before this man went on to allegedly murder a 22-year-old?

Andrew Giles (Scullin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question. Direction 99 did not decrease the importance placed on considerations such as the expectations of the Australian community and the protection of the community from crime. That is a very important point here, as well as the fact that the visa in question was cancelled and remained cancelled by my department in accordance with ministerial direction 99.

Now, a number of cases were not raised with me by my department, and I've asked my department for an explanation why. My department is now looking at all these cases as a priority, and they are all under cancellation consideration.